Sergei Kalinovsky

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Yatsina, a photographer with the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, was killed in Chechnya by Chechen militants who had taken him hostage. Two former hostages, Alisher Orazaliyev from Kazakhstan, and Kirill Perchenko from Moscow, reported the killing in statements recorded by Amnesty International after their release at the end of February.

Russian president Vladimir Putin, along with his
coterie of conservative former intelligence officials, pressed ahead in
2002 to impose his vision of a "dictatorship of the law" in Russia to
create a "managed democracy." Putin's goal of an obedient and patriotic
press meant that the Kremlin continued using various branches of the
state apparatus to rein in the independent media.

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New York, April 2, 2002—The body of 26-year-old Sergei Kalinovsky, editor-in-chief of the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets—Smolensk, was found yesterday by a lake outside the city of Smolensk in central Russia.

Kalinovsky, who reported on local politics and crime for the Smolensk edition of the Moscow daily Moskovsky Komsomolets and the local SCS television station, disappeared on the evening of December 14, 2001.